Happy New Year

Hard to believe but we made it through another year. Looking back, I'm still not sure what side of the fence 2010 falls on: there was good and bad and ugly.

Lets start with the good. We finally made the move to Prague where work became easier and harder at the same time. Everyone seemed to adjust well and we are all going about our business thank you very much. The year brought a lot of opportunity for travel for all of us and was capped quite nicely with a Christmas ski holiday in Val Gardena, Italy. The mountains were breath taking even if the skiing wasn't all that great as the weather was unusually warm. And it was nothing, if not educational. Here are some of the things we learned...

...don't let your mother have your iPad to play with. It's like pulling teeth to get it back.
...if you put the 4 boys in one car and the 3 girls in another car for an 8 hour drive, the girl car smells better at the end of the day
...at 86 years old, papa can still put on the skis and do some runs
...at 46 years old, I am too old and fat to do much of anything
...it's not really feasible to lock 7 people in an apartment in a foreign country and expect sanity to be maintained
...Italian TV is worse than German TV
...that nana would rather visit a mall than a historical site, no matter the significance
...it apparently snows everywhere in Europe except where it is supposed to snow


As for the bad, I suppose in retrospect it wasn't really all that bad although at the time it seemed as if the sky were falling and I was the sole target. But when you think that we got through the turbulence with our health and relative happiness intact, then we are very lucky indeed.


And the ugly you ask...Jamie's one and only haircut in Prague. Still gives me the shivers.


Happy New Year everyone and all the best for 2011.